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On Fri, Jul 01, 2022 at 01:28:51PM -0500, John Helmert III wrote: |
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> Gentoo is a community project. The health of a community project |
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> relies on being controlled by that community. Many developers, and |
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> even council nominees, have employers who many may see as not having |
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> the best interest of open source communities at heart. Note that I do |
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> *not* think that one's employer makes them less valuable as a |
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> contributor, or even that developers employed by certain companies are |
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> unsuitable to be on council. Still, I think that it's important to |
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> keep in mind any potential conflicts of interest between Gentoo and |
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> one's employer. |
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> Thus, I have these questions for nominees: |
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> Does your employer use Gentoo? If elected to council, could this |
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> produce a conflict of interest between your employer and Gentoo? If |
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> so, how would you handle the conflict? |
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I'll start: I currently have no employer and thus can answer these |
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questions with "N/A". |
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